>What is in your biomimicry database and how is it structured?
>How do you search it?
Hi, Ulrike. We're still in the process of prototyping our database, so as
of now, very little is in it and it doesn't have much structure. However,
in a few months we'll have an online version with enough structure and
content to give people the idea of what the real thing would be like. At
that point, we'd like to open it up to contributions, so that anyone can
enter data into it (though all submissions would be run through a moderator).
To get an idea what it might be like, here's one of several possible
interfaces I mocked up in Flash, which you can play around with:
http://www.faludidesign.com/RMI/Flash/Mockup_J.html It's a very rough,
thrown-together mockup, and it may or may not make any sense without
explanation, but hopefully it makes it vaguely clear what the plan
is. What the real thing ends up as, of course, will depend on user
feedback and technical/financial constraints. (And, speaking of feedback,
I'd love to get comments on it, and I can explain things which aren't
clear, such as the Browse file-tree-thing on the left.)
---Jeremy
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